# Shirley B. > Software Engineer at Datadog Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shirleyb ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Datadog Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Masters Student @ NYU Tandon School of Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States Highlighted Coursework: Foundations of Computer Science, Introduction to Operating Systems, Introduction to Computer Architecture, Big Data, Network Security, Introduction to Java, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Principles of Database Systems, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing ### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ Xandr Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States - Supervised and mobilized high-quality performance from a team of engineers focused on scaling, improving, and maintaining high throughput streaming applications and batch data jobs for the supply side of the platform. - Empowered external teams to garner strong knowledge of new systems, developing the team into subject matter experts in the reporting systems and enabling them to assist external teams in their reporting needs. - Built up the team from a single direct report with limited knowledge of both streaming and batch data processing and grew to become subject matter experts through independent learning and engaging with external teams. - Applied knowledge gained from building the team to enable other teams to learn the systems going forward. - Drove adherence to customer SLAs around data freshness, response time, and system availability by incorporating rigorous monitoring tooling, strict policies, and 24/7 pager rotation coverage to batch data jobs, Kafka pipelines, and API. - Created and implemented quarterly Scrum plans for the scope that needed to be developed and released. - Removed impediments, handled conflict management, and inspired team collaboration to help achieve sprint objectives. Key Achievements - Boosted data freshness speed from minutes to seconds and reduced round-trip response time to the frontend by 60% through the cultivation of partnership with Database Administrators, product managers, and other dependent cross functional teams in the service of migrating analytical databases from Vertica to SingleStore. - Lessened load by 80% and eliminated monthly client-impacting incidents resulting directly from pipeline volume by designing and implementing strategies to reduce load on Kafka streaming pipelines with product managers and client services teams. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Xandr Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 - Delivered insights via data related to monitoring and troubleshooting tools used daily by international clients through the design and implementation of new materialized views in SQL combining data from relational and analytical databases into a single OLAP database. - Clearly communicated lifetime-aggregated and time series data for terabyte-sized datasets by building batch data jobs utilizing Hadoop. - Propelled effective real-time advertising strategies for clients by providing high granularity data through the writing of a new Apache Kafka pipeline in Java to insert high volumes of streaming data into Vertica at a scale of hundreds of MB/s. - Optimized joins performed at query-time for the fastest possible client-side retrieval times by configuring OLAP tables many terabytes in size. ### Student @ NYU Tandon Bridge Program Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Graduated with Distinction Course providing a comprehensive overview of Computer Science fundamentals to prepare students with a non-technical undergraduate degree for a master’s degree in computer science. ### Software Engineer II @ AppNexus Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States - Orchestrated end-to-end platform blocker feature additions for sellside video and sellside deal features regularly used by clients, unlocking significant revenue. - Produced client-facing features by working in monolith PHP API and corresponding relational database and added frontend React components. - Maintained ongoing collaboration with engineering, marketing, and technical support to present and discuss ideas to enhance product features, functionality, and reliability. - Developed business solutions in an Agile Scrum development method by delivering tested products in short sprint and responding quickly/easily to changes from customers. ### Software Engineer @ AppNexus Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Technical Intern @ AppNexus Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Student @ The Flatiron School Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Curriculum Developer @ Codesters Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Worked on a small team to develop computer science curriculum in Python for an online platform to help students learn to code. The curriculum was designed to be used by teachers in the classroom, and adhered to common core standards. ### Project Manager @ Tutor Associates Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | New York City Managed technical projects, including mock test formatting using LaTeX and InDesign, and creating a tutor management website in Django for internal use. ### Cataloger @ Yale University Coins and Medals Gallery Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | New Haven, CT Catalogued, studied, and photographed Yale University’s collection of ancient coins and medals. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science NYU Tandon School of Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### BA in Classics (Greek and Latin) Yale University Jan 2007 – Jan 2011 ### Web Development Flatiron School Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ### Computer Science General Assembly Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### High School The Chapin School Jan 1995 – Jan 2007 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shirleylberry --- Source: https://flows.cv/shirleyb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shirleyb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23